Barrel-hoop



J. PRENDEBGAST: EARREL HOOP. K APPLICATIUN FILED NOV. 10 1917. RENEWED AUG. 20, I920. 1,360,792; Patented Nov. 30, 1920.

unmmumr 1 %l llllumllllll UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES PRENDERGAS T, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

BARREL-HOOP.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented N 30 1920 Application filed November 10, 1917, Serial No. 201,307. Renewed August 20, 1920'. Seriul No. 404,960.

T 0 allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J AMES PRENDERGAST, a citizen of the United States, residing at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Barrel- Hoops; and I do hereby declare the following to-be a full, clear, and eXact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the artto which it appertains to make and use the same.

. This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of hoops, and more particularly to the manufacture of wooden hoops, although it is obvious from the following description that the same may be utilized in connection with the manufacture of hoops of any material.

It is well known that in methods heretofore employed in the manufacture of hoops,

' considerable expense is incurred and valuable time is consumed in skiving the opposed ends'of the strip of material from which the hoop is made, and that when the ends are-brought into the usual overlapping engagement with respect to each other, the

joint is unduly thickened. Besides the expense incurred by this operation, there is considerable material wasted by overlapping the ends of the strip to form the. joint in the hoop.

Vith these conditions in view, the invention contemplates the provision of means whereby the necessity of skiving the ends of the strip is eliminated and whereby the opposed ends of the strip are fastened in abutting engagement with respect to each other, thus saving the time and labor previously consumed in skiving the ends and saving the material formerly wasted by making an overlapping joint. To this end the invention provides a cleat designed to tie the ends of the strip together in abutting engagement with each other, the cleat being preferably of wood of the same Width as the hoop, and may be of a thickness substantially less than that of the hoop. The invention also provides novel retaining means for securing the cleat to the hoop.

One embodiment of the invention is hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and more particularly pointed out in the appended claims; it

right is reserved to make such changes in minor details of construction and in proportion of parts as fairly fall within the scope of the appended claims without departing from nor sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of a hoop constructed in accordance with the inventlOIl.

rig. 2 is an outside elevation of the hoop omt.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the joint.

F g; 4 is an inside elevation of the joint.

Fig. 5 is a detail view of a retaining staple. 7

. Like reference numerals are used to designate like parts throughout.

In the embodiment of the invention disclosed in the accompanying drawings, 1 designates 2111100131 constructed in accordance with this invention, wherein the ends 2 and 3 of the stripusedin making the hoop are brought into abutting engagement with each other as shownat 4, and secured in said position by a cleat 5. The hoop is preferably made of a suitable kind of wood, although it is obvious that any other suitable material may be substituted therefor.

The cleat 5 may be of any suitable material, such as wood or metal, but is preferably made of a wood similar to that used in mak ing the hoop. It is to be noted that the cleat may be and is preferably of a thickness considerably less than that of the hoop and of substantially the same width. This provides a substantially rigid joint which is considerably li hter than the usual joint wherein the ends of the strip are in overlapping engagement with each other.

The cleat 5 is shown provided with elongated tapering extremities 6, and with a wide centrally positioned portion 7, thereby providing means which will yield a relatively rigid joint, it being understood that the wide portion of the cleat is designed to coincide with the joint 4 and operating to reinforce the same. The cleat may be retained upon the hoop by a plurality of nails or screws 8 and staples 9, it being noted that the nails or screws 8 are positioned relatively close to the extremities 2 and 3 of the hoop, while the staples 9 are shown positioned adjacent the tapered extremities 6 of the cleat.

The staples are of a form best shown in Fig. 5, as comprising a body portion having integral depending tangs 11 designed to be driven into the material of the hoop on either side of the tapered ends 6. The body portion 10 of the staple is shown provided .with a centrally positioned aperture 12 which is designed to receive an auxiliary nail or screw to thereby provide a reinforced fastening device for the end of the cleat.

It is to be understood that if the hoop is constructed ofa material not adapted to receive driven fastening means such as hereinbefore described, suitable rivets may be used in lieu thereof without departing from the heater in appearance, and lighter'in weight than was possible by methods heretofore em ployed, and that is substantially cheaper and easier to manufacture.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is 1. A hoop formed from a strip of resilient material, said strip being bent to bring its opposedends into abutting engagement with respect to each other, a cleat provided with a broadcentral portion, and tapering extremities, said broad portion designed to coincide with the joint in the hoop, means to secure the ends of the strip to'said broad portion of the cleat, and similar staples straddling and securing the tapered extremities of the cleat tothe hoop on opposite sides of the joint.

2. In a hoop having a non-overlapped or abutting joint, a cleat positioned over the joint, said cleat having'a broad central pore tion coincidingiwith the joint, and tapered? extremities disposed on opposite sides of the joint, means toretain the ends of the hoop to the broad portion of the cleat, and similar staples straddling and securing the ends of he cleat to the hoop at points removed from the joint and on opposite sides thereof.

3. In combination with a hoop, a'cleat to cover the joint therein on the outside of said hoop, said cleat being relatively thin and of uniform thickness throughout and provided with elongated tapered extremities,

means to retain the cleatto the l1oop,sim ilar means designed to straddle the ends of said cleat and be driven into thehoop, and re-. I taining means to simultaneously engage the cleat, the. hoop and said straddling means.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature.

; JAMES PRENDERGAST. 

